Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-06-29
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the lever should be increased in pro-
portion to the number of cheeses.
Cheeses Of this size and Of good quality
and purity could be sold with the great
est ease. They are Of such q size as to
be consumed while fresh and in the
best condition, and, what is very i'm
portant, any person can easily carry one
from store, so that there is no OBJ
lection to purchasing them an account
Of difficulty infgetting one. home. If I
were in the business of making cheese
for family use would have thin, light
wooden strawboard boxes in which a
cheese would fit nicely, and it should
have q neat handle, and be labeled
with my name and the name of the
farm, and branded "Pure, whole-milk
cheese for family use." Ny butter in
similar packages has sold for at least
twenty cents pound more than it
would bring in ordinary tubs.
POULTRY RAISING. Z 49,
The active demand that has been
growing for eggs and poultry chicks has
caused attention to be turned to this
branch of farm industry; much to the
benefit of the poultry and the increase Of
the products. If in the past there has
been feeling that hens and turkeys
were we'll enough fixed when allowed
to tindperches or roosting places among
the branches of trees, that idea has be-
become so modified that now, even
farmers, who make no pretension to any
professional skill in poultry manage
ment, provide for them comfortable
houses.
There is no reason why fowl is not
affected by cold as much as any other
animal, and as consequence should re-
quire an additional amount of food to
maintain q normal condition of heat.
# then there is unnecessary exposure
there must be greatly increased feeding,
or else there is IN exhaustion of heat
forming principles already stored in the
body of the fowl. This condition of
things is avoided if a warm house is
provided. with windows and q southern
exposure.
This fact is becoming so well under
stood that hen houses are now consid-
cred to be an important appendage to
every farm. But the advantage does
not rest wholly in the saving of feed.
1t is a recognized fact that hens will not
lay in severly cold weather if they are
too much exposed. On the contrary,
where there is good shelter, with the
SUMS rays shining in during the middle
of the day, accompanied with suitable
food, eggs may be secured as well in
winter as well as in summer. Neglect
in any branch of farming bringsits fruits
of disaster, and in this, poultry keeping
finds no exception.
Hens should be comfortably fed with
varieties of food, and comfortably warm
ed. 1t has an excellent effect upon lay
ing hens to provide them, say once a
day with mess of corn and oats mixed,
that have been thoroughly heated by
soaking in scalded water. Corn meal,
scalded and seasoned with red pepper
or ginger, also serves good purpose.
Chopped cabbage, apples, ETC., are an
excellent change oftood and productive
of benefit to fowls. Broken oyster shell,
old crockery, and crushed bones should
be reasonably fed, and above all keep
a supply of clear water or skinned
milk. Also provide sand or ash, both
with sulphur mixed, to keep off vermin,
and poultry will respond with eggs.
THE BRAIN IN CHILDHOOD.
DR.. William A. Hammond, in con-
sidering in Popular Science the subject
of brain forcing in childhood, states
that the brain of child is larger in
proportion to its body than is that of an
adult. A fact somewhat astonishing
to those not aware of it is that the head
of a boy or girl does not grow in size
after the seventh year, so that the hat
that is worn at that age can be worn
just as well at thirty. In the meantime
the rest of the body has more than doub-
led in magnitude. Not only is the
brain larger, but it is more excitable
and impressionable in the child than in
the adult. At the same time the struc-
ture is immature. What it possesses
in size it lacks in organization; conse-
quently it is not at its maximum for
severe and long continued exertion, and
when subjected to a strain of this kind
it is certain to suffer. We have all of
us s9p children become mentally ia
tigued from very Sigh causes, even
when they have been at the same time
greatly interested. How much more,
therefore, must their brains be tired
when they have been forced to concen-
trate their attention upon subjects the
Importance of which they do not under
stand.
The child, says DR.. Hammond, should
be taught how to acquire knowledge
by the use of his senses, and there are
facts enough surrounding him to keep
him as much engaged as is proper. If
he does not begin to look at books till
he is ten years old he will by the time
a year has elapsed, read better
than the child that has begun to learn
his letters at three or four.
HAVE THINGS HANDY